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Former student protest leader and leftist lawmaker Gabriel Boric faces an uphill battle persuading voters from the vanquished centrist parties to back him rather than his hard right rival when Chile holds a presidential run-off election next month.
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Former student protest leader and leftist lawmaker Gabriel Boric faces an uphill battle persuading voters from the vanquished centrist parties to back him rather than his hard right rival when Chile holds a presidential run-off election next month.
An unprecedented social eruption rocked Chile’s post-Pinochet consensus in 2019. With a new constitution set to be drafted, the presidential election has polarised between far-left and resurgent fascism. Michael Chessum reports.
A new constitution is being written after a series of student protests rocked Chilean politics. Now, an upcoming presidential election could shift the country towards economic and social change
"It feels like we are at the end of an era," Barbara Sepulveda tells me on October 12, 2021.